same here. Doc, dentist, haircut early before schedules fall apart.
OMG! ;-)mystang52 said:
We love getting up early because sunrise is such a special time to enjoy the outdoors. I loved sleeping in on weekends when I was working. Now, retired, I don't want to miss that special time. We usually have finished breakfast before sunrise.
Before I retired, I felt the same since by 6 AM I was at my desk at work every morning. I loved getting up early and only wished I could enjoy the morning instead of having to go in to work. I self-identified as a dedicated "morning person", but really did not have a clue since I had never in my life been free to choose when I got up.
Now that I am retired, I find myself sleeping late, late, late. In fact, I now set an alarm so that I will get up at 8 or 9 AM and not sleep through the entire morning. Otherwise I tend to conform to a 25-26 hour day and sleep an hour later each day. My retired brother is the same and suggests that we are really space aliens from another planet.
I exercise around 2 PM, but that is nice, too! There are lots of other happy retirees at the gym at that time.
Helen said:
W2R said:Sleep deprivation seems to be pretty common among working people and I was no exception.
I sleep like a ROCK in retirement. Before ER I would sometimes stay awake, tossing and turning and fussing over work related things. Sometimes I would even have to get up and do something else in order to stop worrying and fussing. Or, I would awaken in the middle of the night thinking that I had forgotten to do something at work, and experience similar fussing and worrying. None of this happens to me any more at all.
My only sleep issues are due to not having an externally imposed time to awaken (and bedtime) and learning that ignoring this just does not work for me. Like a kid, I just do not want to go to bed sometimes and if I stay up later, I sleep later in the morning, and later each morning than the one before. This does not work for me. For some reason I need a regular schedule but did not know that, and my body did not just automatically provide one for me. I guess that is a skill that I need to learn.
I now awaken to the gentle sounds of morning birdsongs, that my new alarm clock will play for me. No more buzzers, though, and instead of bounding out of bed in 3 seconds or so, I allow myself to drift and awaken gradually over 15 - 20 minutes.
I still have an occasional nightmare, but that is about all that can disturb my sleep.
I haven't slept this deeply since I was a little child. I sleep about 7.5 hours each night, and sometimes/usually take a very refreshing half hour or hour nap during the evening news.
